Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download !

Hackito Ergo Sum 2011 slides available for Download ! HES aims at anticipating the challenges of the security world and gathers together underground or amateur security researchers together with professional security expert researchers and technical decision makers. During three days, HES will...

The BodgeIt Store - another vulnerable web app

Hi folks, I've recently open sourced a vulnerable web app, called The BodgeIt Store: http://code.google.com/p/bodgeit/ Why? Well, you can never have too many vulnerable apps to test against, but also because I've found that many of the existing apps are non trivial to install - they either have a...

Mariposa: December, 2009

The takedown of the Mariposa botnet is an example of both the possibilities and complications facing law enforcement around the world as they work to stamp out botnets. A cyberlaw enforcement success story, the take down of Mariposa by Spanish authorities in December, 2009, followed months of wor...

Katie Moussouris on Microsoft, Trustworthy Computing and the Evolution of the Security Community

Dennis Fisher talks with Microsoft’s Katie Moussouris about the way that the Trustworthy Computing effort at Microsoft has changed, how the security community has evolved since she got involved in the 1990s and the challenges–and fun–of being a woman in security. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy6...

GAO Warns Of Cyber Insecurity on Smart Grid

The U.S. Government’s watchdog, the Government Accountability Office GAO has warned that the rapid adoption of so-called “smart grid” infrastructure in the U.S. electric industry is going forward without adequate planning for cybersecurity and the combined physical and cyber attacks that are like...

Enterprises Riding A Tiger With Consumer Devices

Like the old adage that ‘he who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount,’ enterprises today are bounding along on the back of a particularly large and fearsome tiger. It’s called “consumer technology” and its shape is outlined by the myriad of devices and services that modern information workers are...

Malwarians at the Gate: Banks, Businesses and ACH Fraud

Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked and pillaged. But where does the fault really lie? Banks and their customers are on opposite ends of a feud over which is responsible when online banking accounts get hacked...

Previewing RSA Conference 2010

Dennis and Ryan preview the RSA Conference 2010 with their friend Tim Whitman, the head of the security practice at Schwartz Communications. Subscribe to the News Wrap podcast on Podcast audio courtesy of The New Radio Tough Road Ahead for Adobe on Security...

Skype Security On the Business Hot Seat

Michael Gough, an information security specialist and president of the Austin, Texas, chapter of ISSA, owner of the web site skypetips.com gave CSO his thoughts on Skype’s benefits and security challenges in the business environment. Read the full article. CSO...

Tough Road Ahead for Adobe on Security

Microsoft and its endless portfolio of products have been the favorite targets of attackers for more than a decade now. But if the events of the past year or so are any indication, it looks like that dubious distiniction now belongs to Adobe. The last 12 months have been rough for Adobe, the make...

Real World Security – Ed Bellis interview

Dennis Fisher talks with Ed Bellis, CISO of Orbitz Worldwide, about the security challenges facing a Web-based business, the value of software security initiatives and the joys of compliance in today’s regulatory environment. Listen to the podcast: Read the transcript...

Real World Security – Bob Maley Interview

In the first installment of a new regular series, Dennis Fisher talks with Bob Maley, the CSO of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, about the challenges of running an information security program in a government agency, the effects of the economy on his efforts and the ways in which user education...

SMBs, Non-Profits New Targets of Choice for Attackers

Large enterprises and consumers have been dealing with sophisticated phishing scams, online extortion plots and other assorted theft schemes for years, but now attackers are turning their attention to the huge population of small businesses and non-profits in the U.S. And they are finding a gold...

How to Plan for Smartphone Security in the Enterprise

From eWEEK Chris De Herrera One of the major challenges CIOs face is the deployment and security of smartphones in the enterprise. It’s important for CIOs to assess how their organization should secure the smartphones employees use to access corporate resources. Here, Knowledge Center contributor...

RSA Cryptographer's Panel: Cloud Computing Takes Center Stage

Not so surprising, the state elders of cryptography had a few things to say about the security of cloud computing — but with little agreement. Whitfield Diffie, chief security officer at Sun Microsystems, kicked off the cloud security discussion, stating that while securing the cloud computing...

APOP password recovery vulnerability

Overview POP3 is a protocol for receiving email from mail servers. APOP is an authentication mechanism used by the POP3 protocol. It is reported that APOP passwords could be recovered by third parties. In its successful attack, the attacker spoofs itself as the mail server, provides challenge...

XSS in Postnuke Rogue release (0.72)

Program: Postnuke Rogue release 0.72 Latest. HomePage: www.Postnuke.com/.org Description: PostNuke is a weblog/Content Management System CMS. Whilst PostNuke is a fork of PHP-Nuke, the entire core of the product has been replaced, making it far more secure and stable, and able to work in...

TCP SYN - bang.c Denial of Service

TCP SYN - bang.c Denial of Service / BANG.C Coded by Sorcerer of DALnet FUCKZ to: etech, blazin, udp, hybrid and kdl PROPZ : skrilla, thanks for all your help with JUNO-Z and especially this code : -------------------------------- REDIRECTION DOS FINALLY DISTRIBUTED !!!!!! This is POC and...

Potential vulnerabilities of the Microsoft RVP-based Instant Messaging

The Encode Security Labs performed an empirical analysis of the Microsoft Instant Messaging implementation based on Exchange 2000 and using the MSN Messenger Service v3.6 client. The most important findings about the IM service are: -it does not offer any confidentiality -it is vulnerable to...

breeze-server.txt

Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 00:32:34 -0500 From: //Stany To: [email protected] Subject: Breeze Network Server remote reboot and other bogosity. Good day. I am Ortodox Christian, so my Christmas is on Jan 7th, but in the spirit of giving, I would like to submit the following rant. It is rather...